Recognizing the need to boost the country’s campaign to alleviate the plight of disaster victims, the European Commission (EC) is providing the Philippines an additional 4 million Euro or roughly P226.7 million to aid the victims of typhoons “Ondoy” and “Pepeng” which ravaged Metro Manila and parts of Luzon late last year. (..) In 2009, ECHO earmarked an initial 9 million Euro for emergency assistance such as immediate food assistance, shelter materials, medical supplies and other non-food items provided by its international partners such as the International Federation of the Red Cross (IFRC), the World Food Program (WFP) (..).